Embedded Icc Profiles-Are they needed?

What are they for?
Do i need them if my images contain no color?

Read up on color management. This is too complex to answer comprehensively in forum posts. Profiles provide rules for converting color spaces. Just saying "my images contain no color" is far too vague. The images may all be b&w, but if your artwork in AI contains color, those rules would still be needed to determine how to possibly print your black (rich black vs. process black). anyway, without a depper insight into what you are actualyl doing, this is not going anywhere. Blanket statements never helped anyone.
Mylenium

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How do I embed the third parties provided ICC profile in the file before sending to them?
Any help on the correct process would be appreciated,
thanks
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Not sure the following answers your question, but have a look here:
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/tools/profile_converter/

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Embedding ICC-profiles in pdf

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Thanks Shulin but I've already downloaded the acrosdk. The samples work based on plug in functionality to acrobat i.e. they call an api when acrobat runs. I want to write to the pdf file from my own C++ program which is only linked with the XMP toolkit as opposed to a plug-in. I am looking for the same kind of information that was supplied for JPG, TIFF by Adobe, only for PDF.
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Icc profiles are not being recognized by epson printer from LR 5 in Mac OS 10.10 yosemite

After switching to Mac OS 10.10 (Yosemite) my epson 3880 is no longer recognizing the icc profiles. Is anyone else having this issue?
I've already reinstalled all epson drivers and printer options to no avail. I'm thinking that lightroom and the printer are not communicating the icc profile info?

Striebig wrote:
I'm thinking that lightroom and the printer are not communicating the icc profile info?
That's not how it works. If LR does the color management, it converts the image from its working space (linear ProPhoto RGB) to the space defined by the ICC printer profile that you have designated in the Print module and sends to the printer that (converted) data. The printer driver should be set to "No Color Management" and therefore has no need to know the ICC profile. If you set LR to "Color Management: Managed by Printer", no profile is designated in LR, the data is sent unconverted, and you have to set the driver interface to the appropriate ICC profile - again no communication of the printer profile, although LR does send data that describes the working space so that the driver can make the conversion.

Importance of embedding ICC profiles

I have created a package of logos in different versions. 30 versions in all. However each logo weights around 1.2 mb. It contains nothing but a few vectors and colors, no blends no images.
If I save as unchecking "Embed ICC profile" the weights falls to around 188 k
Is it a bad idea unchecking the ICC profile?
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You don't need a color profile if the the artwork was created or approved in the color space of the destination. For example if you create a CMYK document in U.S. web coated (SWAP) v2 color space and the file will be printed on a offset press in North America on a coated paper which uses the same color profile then you don't need the profile attached. It will make no difference because the source and destinations are the same. You need the profile if the color space of the destination is unknown or different than the color space of the document for example if the mentioned file above is printed on matte paper or on another kind of printer and there is no color profile to tell the meaning of the colors, the colors will print wrong.

CS6 Windows 7 - On embedding ICC profile in jpg

Hi all,
I have the need to save my AdobeRGB photographs as jpg for web publishing. With "normal" images whatever I do works reasonably well. But with a project of nocturnal images, where there are many details in the deepest shadows, I found that the only way to have a jpg that looks on the current versions of IE, Firefox and Chrome like the original PSD is to generate a jpg with adobe RGB (i.e. not converting to sRGB), and *without* embedding the profile in the jpg. All the other options (adobe rgb w/ profile, sRGB w/ or w/o profile) give a jpg that looks significantly darker than it should. I can understand that the new generation browsers don't necessarily need sRGB, but I don't see how embedding the profile could hurt. Can anyone shed light on this?
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PS - Here follows an example: on the right, the image as it should look, with very dark but discernible details above the lit window; on the left, pure black.

Notes:
1) the right image is the bottom one, the one too dark is the top one; but uploading the jpgs here probably caused them to be saved again on the forum database, and that made the difference much smaller than it was. I can send the originals to anyone interested.
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I want to get a screen capture (shift-cmd-3, or shift-cmd-4) and not have it embed the default display ICC profile, as it adds about 500Kb to the file and really isn't need. Any options to turn this off?

Hi, what format/extension is it saving as?
Perhaps something like GIF woudn't save that profile...
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ICC profiles are being uninstalled on my HP photosmart printers using PSE9

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For WIN
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http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/iccprofiles/iccprofiles_linux.html
Cheers
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Export as .tiff w/ embedded ICC profile support

Hello-
I usually hang out in the Color Management forums but thought this would be a better place to ask my question. I am trying to determine what the oldest version of Illustrator supports the Export as .tiff and allow for profiles to be embedded in the .tiff file. Any help would be much appreciated. I am trying to avoid having to find install source for Illy 7.0, 8.0 etc.
Best Regards,
Bryan

This gets better and better, Bryan.
Here is a screen shot of the TIFF Options dialog in AI 8 running on Mac OS Classic.
No embed option, just as with the Win version, however...
The resulting TIFF opened in Photoshop with an embedded profile -- in this case U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2, which is the printer profile setting in my AI 8 Mac.
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I keep getting this message in photoshop lately, and i cant use some of my actions, can anyone explain what causes it and if I can fix it? Is it due to a corrupt card? What damage has it done to my files if any?
I'm not super techy so keep it nice and simples please!!!

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Placing a PDF with ICC profile embedded

If I place a PDF with a ICC profile embedded, InDesign doesn't take in consideration it.
In the case that the Indd colour workspace is different from the ICC embedded in the PDF, when I export to PDF the color conversion is wrong.
For example the PDF embedded ICC profile is US webcoated (Swop), the Indd workspace is Iso Coated L39 v2 and I want export to PDF with conversion to PSO lwc improved,
the conversion that I get is wrong.With an image with the ICC pofile embedded the conversion is ok.
does anyone know how it works?

With regards to placing PDF/X files in either InDesign or Illustrator ...
Neither InDesign nor Illustrator currently do anything whatsoever with the Output Intent ICC profile in a PDF/X file. It is totally ignored. In PDF/X-1a files, there is no other color mangement and as such, all objects are either DeviceCMYK or DeviceGray or spot colors. The objects are imported as CMYK or spot color values assuming the document's default CMYK color space. Thus, if you place a PDF/X-1a file with a profile for Gracol and your InDesign document's default color space is US Web Coated SWOP, those CMYK colors in the PDF/X-1a will be brought in as-is but interpreted as is they were US Web Coated SWOP.
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